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Reefer Madness w/The Divine Hand Ensemble at PhilaMOCA March 21

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The infamous anti-drug cult classic Reefer Madness is one of those timeless over-the-top films that has gained notoriety for all the oh so very right and wrong reasons over the years. But for better or worse, the so-bad-that-it’s-good cinema classic is the appropriate movie to be screened within the Eraserhood, especially when there’s a live orchestra doing an adaptation of the score. Led by professional Moog-endorsed concert thereminist, Mano Divina, The Divine Hand Ensemble is a one of a kind eight-piece orchestra that has an enchanting way of bridging the divide between classical music and the people who need to hear it. And before they take the stage to accompany Reefer Madness, they will be on hand to perform live scores to vintage animated shorts as well. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 8pm, $10, All Ages – Bill McThrill 

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Cool Points Staying True at Everybody Hits March 21

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Cools Points have been staying true to their namesake, and gaining some for the past couple of years by playing badass basement shows and touring with the likes of Mumblr, Amanda X, and Bleeding Fractals. And the DIY outfit has also been gaining ears by playing fast-paced noise-punk anthems like Crucial Turds and Not Your Bro. Tonight’s show at Everybody Hits will be business as usual for the hard-hitting four-piece. It will be headlined by shoegaze-y four-piece Ghost Gum, and will also feature the newest punk-pop project from Dangerous Ponies expats Chrissy Tashjian, Kyle Pulley, and Mike Tashjian, Thins Lips. Everybody Hits, 529 W. Girard Ave., 7PM, $5, All Ages – Bill McThrill 

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Weekend Warrior, March 20 – 22

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The Spirit of the Beehive perform this evening at First Unitarian Church to celebrate the release of their debut self-titled LP via Ranch Records, which garnered The Deli Philly’s Record of the Month in December. The band finds that happy medium between comforting, spacey, shoegazing haze drawing you intimately close and the more instrumentally aggressive, grimy immediacy of grunge songs. That introspective vibe bodes well as one dives in headlong, and provides distinct bubble-breaking contrasts when the subtle scene defining tones are transferred over to tormenting torrential illustrations. Japanese Breakfast, the side project of Little Big League’s Michelle Zauner, delves into the experimental pop realm. Zauner’s crisp vocals searchingly swim as she digs into a series of diary-oriented narratives that take her to serious moments, but still makes pit stops in lighthearted places. Pop-punk trio Blowdryer incorporates sludgy drone amid a gritty straight-ahead energy. The experimental bedroom pop output of former Philly native now NYC resident, Eskimeaux, harnesses emotion in a clean, catchy, elegant manner, plucking at your heartstrings along the way. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 8pm, $8, All Ages – Michael Colavita
 
Other places to wait out winter this weekend…
 
First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St.) SAT Mischief Brew
 
The Boot & Saddle (1131 S. Broad St.) FRI Johnny Showcase & The Mystic Ticket, Minka, SAT Radiator Hospital, Paul & Beril
 
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.)FRI Twin Symptoms, QQQ, Clovermite/The Late Saints/Sexy Black Female, Agent Zero, The Wonder Bars, SAT EMCK, SUN I Yahn I Arkestra, McRad, Cheerbleeders
 
Bourbon & Branch (705 N. 2nd St.) FRI Black Horse Motel, Sweetbriar Rose, SAT Nathan Earl & Rachel Joy, Last Full Measure, Brian Medlin & The Elk Band, The Captain, The Pilot, The Driver, SUN Josh Miller, Band of Rivals
 
Union Transfer (1026 Spring Garden St.) FRI Sarah Lindstedt, SUN Ecstatic Vision
 
Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) SAT The Beating, Risky Disco
 
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) SAT (Balcony) Dirty Purple, RFA, Moonshine Social, Upstream Color, SUN (Balcony) Feel Rite Audio, Shy Shape, My Little Crusaders
 
TLA (334 South St.) SUN Bon Again
 
Electric Factory (421 N. 7th St.) SAT The Menzingers SUN The Menzingers
 
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.)  FRI (Upstairs) Ryan Matthews, SAT (Downstairs) Hurricane Hoss
 
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI NAAM Brigade, Supreem Da Rezarekta’, Lateefius Maximus III, SAT The Danger O’s, Jantones, SUN Darko the Super, Gwappy Boyz, Rhetoric Wallace, Ialive, O.H.M.
 
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Brad Hinton, Dirty Dollhouse, Caroline Reese & the Drifting Fifth, SAT Flightschool
 
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Callowhill, Royal Shoals, SAT The Blurry Nights, Risky Disco
 
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) SAT Twin 55, Whiskey Kitten Cabaret
 
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St) SAT Philadelphia Ukulele Orchestra w/Gamma Rae
 
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Brown Sugar, SAT Jonathan Monument, SUN Rusty Cadillac
 
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.)  FRI Vital Stats, The Magnetic North/Purple Abaddon, Rebel Revolution, SAT (1pm) The Phoenix Bridge/Slyphr, The Madeleine Haze, Fate 88/Bob Flood, Smoke, SUN The Orderlies, Skyline Beat
 
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St) FRI Joie Kathos, James Hearne, Those People, Katie Barbato, The Discount Heroes SAT Somewhere South, The Funky T, Mike Declan
 
Voltage Lounge (421 N. 7th St.)
 
The Bada Bing Sports Bar & Grille (2372 Orthodox Street) SAT The Future Race, Swarms
 
Wells Fargo Center (3601 S. Broad St.) SAT Meek Mill
 
The Grape Room (105 Grape St) FRI American Dinosaur, Hopscotch Jefferson, The Heavy Weather, Wolf Accent, SAT Undergun, The Retinas, Old Scratch, Allie Carroll
 
Ardmore Music Hall FRI (7pm) Liz Longley/(10pm) Control For Smilers, SUN Alfred James Band
 
The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St. St.) SUN Punk Symposium
 
Everybody Hits (529 W. Girard Ave,) FRI Mumblr, Jackie Paper, Seismic Thrust, SAT Ghost Gum, Cool Points, Thin Lips
 
The Nest (Please Contact one of the acts or venue for more info) FRI Ritual Abuse, Balloon Boy
 
Baker Bowl (Please Contact one of the acts or venue for more info) FRI Snoozer, Abi Reimold
 
Rybrew (Please Contact one of the acts or venue for more info) FRI Arizona Lights, Ok Otter
 
The Pharmacy (Please Contact one of the acts or venue for more info) SAT Spent Flesh, FTS, Repellers, Shithawks
 
Babe Cave 3000 (Please Contact one of the acts or venue for more info) SAT The Pretty Greens
 
The Doghouse (Please Contact one of the acts or venue for more info) SAT Twin Pines, In Writing, Glassgrade
 
Mile High House (Please Contact one of the acts or venue for more info) SAT Brown Rainbow, Shrink (Last Show), The Kingfisher Band, Wring Out
 
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New Track: “Museum Pass (Small Professor LSD Mix)” – Dewey Decibel

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Emecee/producer/visual artist Dewey Decibel dropped a new EP, A Different Drum, earlier this year via World Around Records. It was produced by Zilla Rocca, who is one of his partners in crime in the hip-hop collective, Wrecking Crew. Another member of their gang, Small Professor, also just shared his hallucinogenic, boom-bap interpretation of the track "Museum Pass," which is also available for streaming.

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New Track: “Somethin’ Wicked (Gothic Moment)” – A Sunny Day in Glasgow

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Bi-continental outfit A Sunny Day in Glasgow quietly released a new single yesterday entitled "Somethin’ Wicked (Gothic Moment)." Angelic female vocals waft in as a guitar riff lays down an infectious groove before airy synths take you away to another time, another place. The soundscape eventually gives way to shimmering yet abrasive electronics that dissolve into the ether. (Photo by Zoe Jet Elis)

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Red Bull Sound Select w/Pissed Jeans, Amanda X, Cheerbleeders & More at Underground Arts March 19

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Red Bull Sound Select is presenting this evening’s show, curated by Jump Philly, at Underground Arts, making it feel like this weekend has started a day early. The unforgiving sledgehammer of sound that is Pissed Jeans headline. The four-piece consistently brings a menacing attack of hardcore noise. That adrenaline oozing with an unrelenting sinister style can divide and conquer any room. It’s that commanding sense of heavy instrumental artillery that involuntarily allows you to submit, accepting that downhill smack of backend, guitar that sears and stabs, and that primal order of vocals. The garage-pop trio of Amanda X cleanly enters your head as their lyrically contagious songs are surrounded by a united surge of refined grit. The dark buzzing, bass-popping punk of The Abandos and Cheerbleeders‘ speed-cruising, fuzzy fun set the groundwork for a barrage of music that you’ll want to go into battle with. Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., $10 ($3 with RSVP), 8pm, 21+ – Michael Colavita

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New Music Video: “Clap” (Feat. Freddie Gibbs, Chill Moody & Apollo The Great) – Mr. Green

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New Jersey producer/DJ Mr. Green has been grinding it out in the local hip-hop scene for years now, impressively churning beats and refining his craft. We can still remember him handing us his business card at Silk City in the early years of The Deli Philly. Well, in his latest music video for the track "Clap," you can see how the talented sound sculptor brings together recorded samples from his street adventures to create such a smooth, badass jam for one of our favorite contemporary emcees, Freddie Gibbs, local rising star Chill Moody, and Apollo The Great to lay down some serious bars over. You can can find this single on his forthcoming LP Live From The Streets, which is due out on April 7 via Duck Down Music.

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Free Download: “July 22nd” (Demo) – Mercury Girls

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The new quartet of Mercury Girls unites Kevin Attics & Chris Schackerman of Literature with Adrianne Gold (Tender Vision) and Carolyn Haynes (Ghost Gum) formerly of Catnaps/When I Was 12. “ July 22nd,” of half their recently released demos, floats a dialogue of vocals, and pushes it with steady-handed combination of bass and drums as a jangly guitar cuts through, giving the song an 80’s Brit-pop vibe. You can catch Mercury Girls on Saturday, April 11 at Bourbon & Branch.

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The Extraordinaires – Just What the Doctor Ordered at The Pharmacy March 18

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Sometimes making a run to the Pharmacy mid-week can be just what the doctor ordered; such is the case this evening. The Extraordinaires open the show with their patented concoction of horn-laced folky pop. Grabbing a piece of lively nostalgia and offering an updated and at times, quirky augmentation, the band delivers precise compositions with an ever-inviting casually loose feel. That measured layered atmosphere utilizes natural harmonies and an array of instrumentation to create warm breezy invigorating tunes that stick to you as you wander through the reawakened outdoors. A pair of Massachusetts outfits will join in on the fun. The genre-spanning, jazz-infused folk of Mal Devisa pulls you in close, while the space-y, lo-fi rock of Wydyde, a.k.a. Van Kolodin, sets you comfortably adrift. The experimental multimedia musical discovery of Indira Valey, a.k.a. Valerie Perczek, completes the evening as she invites you into her sonic laboratory. The Pharmacy (Please Contact One of the Acts or Venue for More Info), $7, 7pm, All Ages – Michael Colavita

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New Track: “Mysterion” – The Yetis

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On The Yetis‘ official debut release "Little Surfer Girl"/"Warm California," the four-piece found that sweet spot where you could feel the ocean breeze roll gently in on the waves of the group’s retro 60’s beach-pop sounds. The band reconnected once again with Fancy Time Studio’s Kyle "Slick" Johnson to record its latest single "Mysterion," a panty-dropping, radio/soundtrack-ready number. The track will appear on The Yetis’ upcoming three-song EP Lonely Tandem Ride

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Debut Good Education EP Available for Streaming & Download

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Besides helping other local artists like Cayetana and Cave People produce their own albums, Three Man Cannon‘s Matt Schimelfenig has a new solo project of his own. He’s currently recording under the moniker Good Education, and just released his debut self-titled EP. You can stream and download the three psyched-out/indie-pop tunes below.